rest day (phew) and miscellanea
rest day today which is luck because my legs are a little sore from yesterday. could be time to visit easy tiger again as i was very aware of a slight niggle at the back of my knee that moved to the front below the kneecap and then i felt something on my quad. never real bad but it is back to behind the knee when i walk around.
i have my new months program from sean and there are some interesting things in it. Up to 1hr50mins by the end of the month, which is not very far from 2 HOURS!!!! (sorry did i mention that i ran 98 minutes yesterday?? hehehe). the rest days are being swapped around so i have 4 days in a row some weeks and building up to 6 running days a week which is great cause i feel like i am slacking when i don't go!! he has also put the sydney striders 10km in for this saturday and then just an hour on sunday, but instead i am going to do just an easy 45 saturday and hopefully the great nosh on sunday (gotta work out where it is etc etc). scary but that is even better.
other than that i am feeling fantastic about my weekend of running. its all new territory for me so i'm enjoying it all! and particularly the fact that every run is not such a struggle that now i really enjoy it while i'm out there. how cool is that?!
should be some action on the job front today so watch this space...
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I have also been watching with an incredible sense of sadness the effect of the earthquake that has hit central java
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/desperate-search-for-life-as-toll-climbs/2006/05/28/1148754872647.html
i lived in yogyakarta for 6 months during the first post-suharto election as part of my asian studies degree and this all seems very real (i even climbed the volcano to the north of the city that has been active for the last few weeks!). one thing that is almost impossible to comprehend is the population density and the exponential impact that something like this could have there, compared to what the effect would be here. combined with extreme poverty and poor health infrastructure it will have a lasting impact that I struggle to get my head around.
posted by Ellie80 @ 8:20 am
2 Comments:
This can't be the same person who not long ago was questioning whether she was a runner!! You're making great progress Ellie :)
It would have been in 2000 that I visited Yogyakarta...such an interesting place and I was just amazed to visit sites like Borobudur and Prambanan.
I've spent a fair bit of time in Indonesia over the many years that my parents lived up there.
It is sad about the earthquake. Like you say, it's hard enough to grasp the conditions in which the majority of the population live, let alone how something like this impacts them. As much as you try to be as generous as possible with people you come into contact with over there, at the end of the day it's just a drop in the ocean and you just feel helpless against the enormity of the situation.
Gosh Ellie, I remember when you were talking about training for the Mothers Day 8k. Now listen to you! The Great Nosh sounds like a hoot, the name itself would be enough to rope me in :-)
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